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The amount of fraud that just shot through the supply chain on PPE is lol, just from the tiny morsel of stories I've picked up. I mean of course it was. Planet Money is doing stories about entire states fast tracking procurement through some random guy who knows a guy who knows a Chinese guy who all do a deal together for millions that another state tries to run in and bid on and it all ends with people driving a paper check across the state - and that's just one random story that happened to make the news. The ones that haven't made the news that I know of are all exactly this, but repackaging in the US would be small scale. The large scale is done overseas where it's not detectable.
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FBS posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1276276581619642368 Polls this far out are basically meaningless and historically have a bias to over representing D. Abandon all hope, there is no good timeline.
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zoux posted:Oh hey Jeffery of YOSPOS has purchased the forums so now I can keep spamming yall with misery inducing tweets and opinions for the forseeable future 
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I thought about telling Greg Abbott to resign, but then I remembered who would become Governor in that event and I changed my mind.
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i love how much national press our oscar and felix are getting this week. patrick's on ingraham tonight yelling about something or other
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It’s going to be very interesting to see what the downballot races look like. Trump winning/losing Texas ultimately won’t matter, but if it swings some races it could be big. Right now I have my suspicions that there will be a lot of “anti-trump” voters that are Republican or Republican-leaning independents that hate Trump, but won’t be voting for any Democrats.
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so lady antebellum is now lady A, but the dixie chicks just changed their name to the chicks. should've gone with "the D chicks"
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i say swears online posted:so lady antebellum is now lady A, They should have changed it Lady Antifa or Lady Appomattox
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Charlz Guybon posted:Lady Appomattox this is good
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The "A" clearly stands for "Alan Parsons".
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I don't imagine the Dixie Chicken will be changing its name but oh the Aggie rage if they did
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zoux posted:I don't imagine the Dixie Chicken will be changing its name but oh the Aggie rage if they did There would be outrage for sure but I would be okay if it changed to "The Chicken" since thats what everyone calls it anyway
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good morning https://twitter.com/cbs11doug/status/1276509820141686792 e: details https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1276515526878154753
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Whoa, I'm irl shocked. poo poo must be even worse than it looks.
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Closing bars is good. It is also too little, too late.zoux posted:Whoa, I'm irl shocked. poo poo must be even worse than it looks. And yet, still no statewide mask order!
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Blotto_Otter posted:Closing bars is good. It is also too little, too late. "Too little too late" is still better than I expected from Abbott at this point
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zoux posted:Whoa, I'm irl shocked. poo poo must be even worse than it looks. This pandemic is by definition always way worse than it looks, if you remember the 3-4 week trail that we saw in NY. Texas has gone over the edge already. The people who will be occupying makeshift convention center hospitals already have the virus in their bodies, at this moment.
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The fact that Abbott was trying to blame millennials (and DeSantis in Florida trying to blame Hispanics) was the signal they would bring back restrictions eventually. After the sacrifice to the blood god.
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Yeah, the political pressure from the right to go full steam ahead is immense, a single step back is mortally wounding to basically every argument the far right has been making regarding the pandemic. I expect they'll have Dan burn him in effigy live on Ingraham tonight. This is massively embarrassing to the sneering anti-public health pundit class. Also, since numbers are only going to continue to go up for at least 2 more weeks (assuming this modest change does anything), now that the seal is broken, why shouldn’t we expect to keep seeing rollbacks? They'll crucify him for this as bad as if he sent DPS around with orders to shoot anyone who leaves their house on sight, might as well do a mask order Man again I gotta say, if Empower Texans wasn’t completely PNG right now, I wonder if this happens E: also note they shut down tubing as well, what's going on there zoux fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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zoux posted:E: also note they shut down tubing as well, what's going on there A deliberate shot at "the youth" who are being scapegoated
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Gotta keep those drat kids from their risky behaviors like ... outdoor activities. *keeps churches open so people can go sing with each other in close quarters every week*
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zoux posted:E: also note they shut down tubing as well, what's going on there Pretty sure that's just to keep photos like this from headlining articles: 
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FBS posted:A deliberate shot at "the youth" who are being scapegoated It's because of San Marcos tbch
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Sampatrick posted:It's because of San Marcos tbch San Marcos does small numbers compared to the Comal and Guadalupe. I have never seen the Guadalupe that busy outside of a holiday. Even the surrounding parks which may have been somewhat busy on a Saturday were wall to wall people and parking was overflowing into the streets. I am Canyon for the next week or so and I'm curious if the rivers empty since the Sheriff has been dying to kick people out
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Feel free to quote me in the years to come if Texas is still a corrupt one-party state led by morons, but this is a seismic debacle. The state government has completely failed to keep people safe and I can't see how Republicans stay in power the way that they have before.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Feel free to quote me in the years to come if Texas is still a corrupt one-party state led by morons, but this is a seismic debacle. The state government has completely failed to keep people safe and I can't see how Republicans stay in power the way that they have before. Failed to keep people safe? The state government actively hindered and shut down local regulations designed to keep people safe. Let's call it what it is. The state government made the active decision to hurt the people its supposed to protect.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Feel free to quote me in the years to come if Texas is still a corrupt one-party state led by morons, but this is a seismic debacle. The state government has completely failed to keep people safe and I can't see how Republicans stay in power the way that they have before. There is a network of official and unofficial media sources that will only say favorable things about the right wing and will twist everything to be a favorable thing for the right wing. A sizable portion of the country and especially Texas gets their news exclusively from these sources and believes anything contrary to them is baseless propaganda.
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Let me put it this way: Once everyone's parents and grandparents are dying, is there really any political rhetoric capable of explaining that away for folks? Maybe I'm idealistic to a fault, but I think there's a chance that could wake a lot of people up.
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zoux posted:Also, since numbers are only going to continue to go up for at least 2 more weeks (assuming this modest change does anything), now that the seal is broken, why shouldn’t we expect to keep seeing rollbacks? They'll crucify him for this as bad as if he sent DPS around with orders to shoot anyone who leaves their house on sight, might as well do a mask order edit: Kull the Conqueror posted:Let me put it this way: Once everyone's parents and grandparents are dying, is there really any political rhetoric capable of explaining that away for folks? Maybe I'm idealistic to a fault, but I think there's a chance that could wake a lot of people up. If one wanted to design a crisis meant to smash faith in the modern GOP's ideas of small government, I don't think you could do much better than this. It's going to be a miserable experience for a lot of people. super edit: https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1276542389977579520 Is there a worse Texas Democrat own-goal this decade than Beto running for president instead of senate? Blotto_Otter fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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FBS posted:good morning Oh good, the bare loving minimum. This state administration is so loving trash. They really need to shut down the loving beaches as well.
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Beto came within 3 points of Generic GOP Senator based on vigorous campaigning, being charismatic, and gently caress Donald Trump. As much as I will never believe in Dems winning statewide in TX until it suddenly happens (especially living amongst smug right wingers with money), add pandemic deaths and economic calamity to Beto's performance and yeah, I can see it.
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https://twitter.com/MarcDuvoisin/status/1276534399643914240 No poo poo the timing is "not good"! (I have no idea what the reason is for the resignation, the article does not provide any details.) https://twitter.com/emfoxhall/status/1276529941304217607 Harris County judge signaling that she'd be instituting stay-at-home orders if a certain someone would let her.
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Blotto_Otter posted:super edit: Just more evidence no politician should ever take Barack Obama's advice ever again.
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duz posted:Just more evidence no politician should ever take Barack Obama's advice ever again. Let's be honest here Beto always had that goal in mind, he was always going to try for it. Obama inadvertently did us the favor of having his mask pulled off first before it was too late.
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Love too be the control group in the Laboratory of Democracy
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KRGV posted:DALLAS (AP) - American Airlines said Friday that it will start booking flights to full capacity next week. The move comes as the United States sets records for new reported cases of the coronavirus. United Airlines already does not block any seats. But other major U.S. airlines including Delta and Southwest leave middle seats open or limit bookings to create space between passengers to minimize contagion. Almost all U.S. airlines require passengers to wear face masks, and in a few cases they have banned customers who refuse to comply. American says it will notify customers when a flight is likely to be full, and will let them change flights at no extra cost. https://www.krgv.com/news/american-airlines-will-book-flights-to-full-capacity Let's see how fast they back track on this.
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